Abstract
The concordant epidemics of asthma and obesity are both associated with inflammation, and obesity has been shown to be an independent risk factor for asthma. A new study in mice indicates that part of the immunological connection between obesity and asthma involves inflammasome activation and production of the cytokine interleukin-17 by innate lymphoid cells in the lung (pages 54–61).
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